00:00 This is my first ever billboard that I've been on, which I am so shocked, I am so proud
00:06 and I'm thankful for my manager for doing this for me and this is me on the billboard.
00:10 Hi my name is Laura Shaw and I used to get bullied and now I am a model.
00:16 Right now I'm a freelance model, I don't get paid. I want it to be my full-time job.
00:27 In high school, in primary school, I used to get bullied a lot. I had like the bad times and good
00:33 times. Like I had like good friends in high school, they used to support me and all and
00:37 other things like that but I had like some nasty people bullying me, like because of my learning
00:43 difficulties, call me ugly and then even teachers saying that I won't get far in life.
00:52 This is where I do my modelling as well. I do, I do modelling down London but I'm also doing my
00:57 modelling up here as well in different places and I've been on billboards up here two times
01:03 and if it wasn't for my manager I wouldn't be where I am now. And this is my second billboard
01:09 I've been on for my manager's fashion show which she's got another fashion show company,
01:16 it's called Yorkshire Fashion Week. It felt amazing, like I felt really good inside and
01:28 I felt so proud of myself and I thought I never, I never thought I'd never do,
01:33 be on the billboards which I, it was my goal to be on the billboards. I loved, I loved everything
01:40 about modelling, like the clothes, the catwalking and everything and I just feel like it's the right
01:46 thing for me to do. I want to inspire people as well with my learning difficulties, like you can,
01:51 you can do it no matter what disability you have. You can be whoever you want,
01:56 no matter what disability, no matter what you look like, you can, you can do whatever you want in life.
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